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Only Quentin Tarantino could have written this script. Doubt it. Watch 'Hateful Eight'.
Nigeria is a theatre of the ridiculous and outright tragic.

CJStarz:
Ain't you among the 200 million?

I have done for Nigeria what Uzoho cannot or will not do.
I have played my part and served this country.
There are folks who are paid to get football prospering under far better conditions that I could never dream of.
As a matter of fact they campaign and make all sorts of promises to get there but change very little.
What does it cost them to recognise they have a goalkeeping problem and deal with it.

hkidola00:
national teams are not meant for improving or building..the best are chosen..your not good your out

Absolutely.
200 million folks and not a decent goalie..... c'mon.
NFF is just lazy.

phemmyfour:
Terrible goal keeping again
Any direct free kick from any angle is a goal

Another draw loading

Told you folks.
Uzoho the Peseiro kryptonite will take us nowhere.

No matter how good your forwards and midfielders, without a half decent goalie you can never win a spoon.
Forwards will get you goals and pull a team out of the group stages but at the business end of tournaments when opposing defenses are tight and matches are decided by the odd goal, then a solid keeper can win the tournament.

Error prone, mickey mouse goalies have no place in serious teams.
Yes, Argentina had Messi, Lautaro, Julian and Macallister but they also had a mad dog between the sticks in Emiliano Martinez and boy did he deliver when it mattered.

No matter how good a coach is, if he cannot smell the coffee and dump sentiment he will be condemned to fail when the rubber meets the road. Just ask Gareth and his son in law in the England defence. You know who.

3-1 Penalty. Moses Simon
1st half ends.

2-1 Nigeria. Frank Onyeka.

Equaliser: 1-1.

Nigeria down 0-1.
Uzoho error..... yet again.

At the headline.
Proof of leadership deficit.....oh my device suggests defeciency. Even it understands the problem.

Angelfrost:
Almajiri country and leaders... All they know how to do is beg, beg, and beg!

You claim to have been preparing to be President for many years, yet no single clear blueprint on how to deal with pressing issues.

He simply came in and continued the pattern left by his useless predecessor.

Honestly the course of this country is just disappointing. It is certain that most folks given a chance will vote to rewind the hands of time to sometime in 2013 and restart from there.

Very, very few people will have anticipated back then that things will get this bad.

It is an indictment of the average citizen not to have seen this coming and vehemently fought against the actors that came shortly after. What a mess.

Instead of looking for ways and means (which lie in abundance) to get them working, get the citizens productive and start earning from the root up, start making the things they eat, wear, read, need, no.

Rather people giving themselves handouts and selling themselves into decadence when their schools are dilapidated, their roads are washed away and their farms are empty.

That is visionary leadership indeed.
Then the same visionary leaders will return to those foreign banks to finance their schools, roads and their food imports, of course the funds given to family and friends masquerading as Contractors and Consultants for a 'commission'. That is how Nigeria plc, Nigeria incorporated, is structured. Give the lions meat, the dogs bones and the cats crumbs. And everyone is satisfied.

Well the good thing for economists is that their job of forecasting the trajectory of the economy is made easier. High inflation with these mindless actions is sure to rage on and anyone speculating against the naira has easy pickings well into the foreseeable future.

Elect people with core competence, no.
Oya, ask 'your people' simple but important questions before electing them, no.
Okay, now in office, demand they find solutions to the challenges...., no..... we hope, we pray, we wait, we will, we will, we will..... and no one should bother us or our people in power.

It is like the word, 'trust' is the new lingo for nepotism.

How and when did this enter into our democracy and root itself so badly in government psyche as to erode the foundations of this country.

The way we are headed will eventually lead us to full blown autocracy. From tribal bias to the Bongo way, governments run by families.

Vigilance remains the eternal price of liberty. Nations do not decay into autocracies overnight. They creep into it while being persuaded by a change of name.

The nickname today is LOYALTY....hmmm.

Boyooosa:
Insert give and resound it.

I don't understand why some Nigerians are like this.... We are too emotional and sentimental at the detriment of thinking straight

Someone is a leader, he has spread the ministerial appointment around all the states as required by the constitution - federal character (even though, we are still hearing from some quarters, ehn, pepefuru o, one position is juicer than the other, Yorubas dominate the key positions of the security architecture etc) - when are we going to stop all these and stay focused on a working system and sane society?

Would he work with people he barely knows?

This is how to get result:

You employ people you trust to engage and monitor people you don't know...shikena

Everything shouldnt be politicized or tribalizer

That is part of what I am saying.
It is clear that the best years of Nigeria's democracy were during the OBJ's years because he was well 'travelled'.

He KNEW a lot of people. And by that I infer that he was a chef with the biggest menu because he was conversant with the largest number of ingredients. Success by that becomes easy.

Exposure is important. Important to business, vocation, profession and every kind of relationship under the sun.

How can you possibly be exposed to the best tools for a job when your reach or bias is limited. To the carpenter his hammer is king. Yes, it may serve his expertise in knocking sheds together. But if he is not exposed to a world of power tools he just cannot build that warehouse.

This was the undoing of the Buhari administration and to a lesser extent the Jonathan regime before it. And we said it then. That though loyalty had a place in government but if you have the resources and cancer to go with it, you will move beyond the loyalty of your family doctor to go find a specialist of any bias or die, simple.

What makes for the success of rookie or juvenile presidents in other climes is rock solid institutions where eggheads of ALL KINDS are the foundations.

Nigeria is not a country of institutions. Leadership is the institution in this quasi feudal state so it is critical that whoever is selected as leader/king is ALL WISE, ALL KNOWING and ALL EXPOSED/EXPERIENCED.

Miss that ideal and the country is shrunk to a village sized enclave.

And because man makes his environment if a President engages the majority of his tools from the fishes of the sea....hmmm, in time all of us will begin to swim.

I think the last government should have taught us a thing or two. At least never ever again to elect people with strong distrust for others to lead a whole nation. See the mess of a country today.

middlebelter:
One thing about the Yorubas, can't take it away from the tribe, always the first and most outspoken to criticize their own in Government. I hope other tribes will take note of this?
I stand with Ogundaisi on this, Mr President should not emulate Buhari on appointment style. I wish to see more Igbos, SS and middle belt appointments, not just Lagos or Yorubas. That's the way to build Nigeria and strengthen her unity. OBJ excelled on this issue.

OBJ came from a background of the very old military establishment which I knew first hand and cherished for being nationalistic.

When you are surrounded by folks of all ethnicities for a long time, crawl in the same mud, eat from the same pot and wear the same overcoats then those inherent biases tearing away at these generation of leaders becomes extinct.

That is what the NYSC was established to do. To impact on the youth the values of nationalism by taking them out of their cultural comfort zones and exposing them to the values of other societies.

Unfortunately the decay of corruption has truncated this ideal rendering it more ineffectual by the year.

The truth is that people that have strong ethnic biases are those that as they say, 'haven't travelled'. And by that I mean not just journeying from place to place but referring to those that haven't lived a life away from their ethnic strongholds and cultural securities.

They haven't ventured into places and positions where they will literally have to depend on foreigners to 'till the ground' or 'dig a mine.'

And all the way from the powerful Presidency to the humble digs of this forum you can know such individuals and from their words smell their inadequacies from a mile away.

The long and short of all this is simple.
Nigeria is called a giant but one that drags a mountain of problems behind in an attempt to move forward.

An engine room of growth to all of Africa and the black race they say, but one run with contaminated fuel. The contamination of ethnic and religious suspicions. A nation badly requiring the decontamination of a process called restructuring.

So that the average leader will be comfortable surrounded by people of all backgrounds and the nation in turn will be comfortable installing leaders of any background because they know it will not matter.

So that Nigeria as a nation becomes light on her feet and is able to catch up with the countries we were at par with at independence. A list that sadly increases every year. Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Brazil, India and many, many more. Such a pity.

Vision101:
When experts talk the ordinary people should listen. Our revenue to GDP ratio is very low. Our income tax to GDP ratio is very low. Why have we been having budget deficits. The answer is funding gap.

The gap can only be filled with either loan, ways and means or taxation. We don't want further loan and ways and means therefore more taxes and alternative sources of revenue must be found.

The lowest fruit is tax. A lot of people in the informal sector don't pay direct tax. A lot of rich Nigerians don't pay their true tax. How many Nigerians pay capital gains tax and capital transfer tax for all the properties that we sell?

The era of petrodollar has gone that's why subsidy has to be removed. Our naira has been artificially overvalued because of petrodollar. Our productivity doesn't match our lifestyle.

Recently the UK was looking for how to find money for some social needs. They decided to find it through increasing charges on immigrants. That's how governments are ran. Government must find money somewhere to fund provision of social needs.

What we should be asking for should be reduction in cost of governance, corruption and optimal usage of resources. None of these will take the place of the above.

Tough and unpopular decisions are required to win back our economy. People are busy wasting time on ordinary paper called certificate.

I don't envy president BAT.

Why doesn't government start by a more efficient budget.
Why doesn't it start by trimming its fats as an act of good faith.
We have been talking about the cost of governance for decades.
A nation this poor does not need a government this large.
And I will continue to say this.
The first casualties of a man that loses his job are his personal aides.
He drives himself and cooks his food. He doesn't employ more helps.

This government to the best of my knowledge has totally avoided the economic issue of the soaring cost of governance and if the citizens are saying there is a disproportionately high volume of resources going to government ( a government which bloats by the day) then there will be a serious flash point ahead.

ogododo:
https://dailypost.ng/2023/10/14/imf-proposes-higher-taxes-as-solution-to-nigerias-fiscal-challenge/

That is to set the country on fire.
Higher taxation on top of inflation induced by poor governance in response to structural changes?
And then you begin to hear of billions stolen by government officials...?

Any taxation government proposes to harvest must be on the back of what the government has been able to seed in the form of job creation, business expansion and economic liberalization.

Reverse the trend of job losses, reverse the trend of business bankruptcies and you have increased revenue automatically.
Then there are large swathes of potentials trapped in the structure of state where the Federal government and its agencies hold monopolies. The so called 'exclusive list' is more like a jury presentation of 'death to the economy'.

When economies are in a crises resources flow to the sectors of higher efficiency. Governments are deliberately made smaller, not larger by increased funding. The private sector is always the engine of economic recovery anywhere and should be aided at times like this, not bled to death.

Reference:
Said this on Oct 10th.
How far....

If I have seen this for a few years now you just wonder why the NFF cannot see this and do something about it.
Or are they no longer bothered about soccer development.
We have a crisis in the goalkeeping department.
The defense has remained average on a good day and poor most times since the 94 set.
The only light at the end of the tunnel is the emerging breed of forwards.
But a strike force is not enough to win sustainably.
For the old saying holds true.
'Defences win trophies'.
And trophies has eluded our soccer teams for far too long.

The performance of our national team is a developmental issue, not just a coaching issue.
The ingredients to make a successful team. And by success I mean a team that win things over the effective lifespan of the group of players, e.g the 94 team, the present Senegal team.
And for the team to attain that it involves the action of the entire Federation.
There has to be deliberate policies to scout and nurture players from root to shoot.
The quick fixes of coaching musical chairs is no longer cutting it.
Wake up NFF.
This team cannot win trophies, simple.

Reference:
The team fades in quality from front to back.
Between the post is just Hobson's Choice.

Said this on Oct 10th.
How far....

If I have seen this for a few years now you just wonder why the NFF cannot see this and do something about it.
Or are they no longer bothered about soccer development.
We have a crisis in the goalkeeping department.
The defense has remained average on a good day and poor most times since the 94 set.
The only light at the end of the tunnel is the emerging breed of forwards.
But a strike force is not enough to win sustainably.
For the old saying holds true.
'Defences win trophies'.
And trophies has eluded our soccer teams for far too long.

Must be one of the first times I have no appetite to watch a national soccer team.
Five minutes and was completely irritated.

Luvinghubby:
If you see the quality of construction Julius Berger is doing in Zaria-Kano road you will marvel. Flood and gully erosion resistant

Indigenous contractors have failed us, some of them have even formed cabal against Umahi who is forcing them to do durable roads

But are these Contractors including Julius Berger not supervised to ensure a proper job.

Poor quality work is not due to a single party failure but is systemic. Government engages Consulting Engineers to design, detail and supervise these road works at high cost.

On top of that government through the Ministry of Works has supervising engineers who watch over these projects. How come all these layers of superintendence fail if not for corruption.

So it is not down to the choice of competencies, but a challenge of ethics. That is the Nigeria problem reflective in every sector from failing infrastructure, moribund refineries or collapsing power grids.

Though the intervention is good and long awaited. But the fact that a situation of absolute decay like this can be reached is simply due to.the lack of capacity through and through, from leadership to the very citizen on the streets. It is not about politics, but about the way we choose to exist, the way we lead and agree to be led.

One should ask those who are kite flying Julius Berger, why leadership can't steer society to attain the ideals and competencies of these establishments such that the qualities anticipated on that project can be replicated in other locations and to other needs in a sustainable manner.

So that in another 30 years we will not be emerging from the prison of decadence as regards that road and others. That building and having quality infrastructure will become second nature.

Can we put a system in place such that we will have heard the last about that road. That it will be maintained, repaired and operated without further fanfare, because after all, it is just a road.

There is an army of capable and intelligent persons all over this country that can make these sorts of events an everyday experience and in a sustainable manner only if there is a working system and qualitative, consistent leadership to organize them.

We needn't suffer so badly because we want to move around in town.

'....rice, cement, margarine, palm kernel, palm oil products, vegetable oils, meat and processed meat products, vegetables and processed vegetable products, poultry, tomatoes/tomato paste, soap and cosmetics, and clothes....'


Now it is up to the government to ask why these items are still being imported enmasse and what they are doing to ensure Nigeria is self sufficient in these.

That is real programs with timelines for delivery.
That intent in itself will send positive signals to the markets.
That is what governance is all about.

Roll out a Marshal plan.
Get the major industrialists on board and sit them down in Aso Rock until they are sick and tired of seeing Mr. President's face and hearing his threats.

What a mess.
The government is just reeling from the kind of blows far and beyond its capacity to cope.
I cannot see the light at the end of this tunnel.
Nothing to indicate a clear way, a concise policy roadmap to easing inflation and raising productivity simultaneously.
Nothing that says this government is at the wheel and is steering Nigeria away from the financial rocks of doom.
If anyone has tangible information, they should speak up.

But, now this.
Another round of free gifts that cannot be ascertained, the detail amounts to whom and for what will be shrouded in secrecy and enveloped in 'business as usual'.

It is like every government comes in with its own bears to feed.
Is the Tinubu government going to run what is left of the tattered economy aground by giftings to the power sector, a sector that has not remotely shown qualitative corporate governance, transparency, accountability and efficiency in service delivery.

Without which subsidy payments will be like trying to store water in a wicker basket.
A government that has not been able to identify not to talk of auditing the trillions payed over the years to fuel vendors has no business contemplating another round of financial impropriety.

kai.... kai... what da hell is this.....
Ah, ah,.... no, no, no, no..... haba.
Is this food.... c'mon don't kill yourself abeg, economy not withstanding, abeg..... kai....

Just 3 pages on a topic of debate of national economic importance.

If this was a topic of ethnic or religious biases the respondents will have numbered in the hundreds.

That is the colour of a nation that cannot solve any, not one of it's problems.

Governments that are elected for election sake.

A country that has never seen a better tomorrow.

A citizenry that lives and dies only to have their people rule, nothing more.

We have done our duty to caution, teach, and suggested in multuvaried ways of a better way forward.

Now it is time to sit back and watch.

The team fades in quality from front to back.
Between the post is just Hobson's Choice.

After seeing what happened to Haaland this weekend I'm not too sure.

Jesus on the other hand was much more successful on the pitch and this is because he more flexible than either Haaland or the potentials Osimen presently offers.

What he lacks in goals he makes up for in creating opportunities.

It is Arteta's soul mate, Eddie Nketia that needs to be divorced for a proper striker.

Calabar1stSon:
Are you minding them. They don't criticize their leaders from what I've discovered. I dey see shege for Abeokuta

Feudalism.... God save the King.

It is 'His Right'....

Splitmind:
I am getting slightly concerned at the number of Yorubas that have taken over key sectors of government.

We in the North also have a stake in Nigeria.

Oga, that horse has already bolted and been at full gallop since 2015 so even a chopper will not locate it.

Like we always say, the seeds of the 'personalisation' of government we all sow when we openly and unashamedly say and I quote the famous line, '...it is the President's right...' at the expense of the will of institutional governance and best practices, at the expense of the Constitution, fairness and equity, will eventually serve everyone the proverbial breakfast.

When we see other nationals fight for liberties, fight for equity, fight for institutional development, fight for the Constitutional reins on government we think they are stupid and our love for feudalism and the rule of a few over the many is the way forward, is a better way of life, simply because it favours our sentiment at any one period in time, then we prove without a doubt that the assertion that the Negro is just not blessed with foresight.

OfficialP:
una don start, just you've suddenly forgotten all the past winnings just because of this one match.

Abi its ranting because of your ticket wey burst

Na wetin sports be, be dat.
I get am before no be asset.
Na who know Anthony Joshua today.

Wow, what a match.....what a second half.....what a last fifteen minutes.

Arteta has finally managed to shoot down Pep and his pigeons.

And caged the Norwegian polar bear.... did he have a shot on goal?...doubt it.